John N. Thompson's Books

The Coevolutionary Process

By: John N. Thompson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Traditional ecological approaches to species evolution have frequently studied too few species, relatively small areas, and relatively short time spans. In The Coevolutionary Process, John N. Thompson advances a new conceptual approach to the evolution of species interactions—the geographic mosaic theory of coevolution. Thompson demonstrates how an integrated study of life histories, genetics, and the geographic structure of populations yields a broader understanding of coevolution, or the development of reciprocal adaptations and specializations in interdependent species. Using examples of species interactions from an enormous range of taxa, Thompson examines how and when extreme specialization evolves in interdependent species and how geographic differences in specialization, adaptation, and the outcomes of interactions shape coevolution. Through the geographic mosaic theory, Thompson bridges the gap between the study of specialization and coevolution in local communities and the study of broader patterns seen in comparisons of the phylogenies of interacting species.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

388

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0226797678

ISBN 13

9780226797670

Interaction and Coevolution

By: John N. Thompson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Interaction and Coevolution

By: John N. Thompson

“It is not only the species that change evolutionarily through interactions . . . the interactions themselves also change.” Thus states John N. Thompson in the foreword to Interaction and Coevolution, the first title in his series of books exploring the relentless nature of evolution and the processes that shape the web of life. Originally published in 1982 more as an idea piece—an early attempt to synthesize then academically distinct but logically linked strands of ecological thought and to suggest avenues for further research—than as a data-driven monograph, Interaction and Coevolution would go on to be considered a landmark study that pointed to the beginning of a new discipline. Through chapters on antagonism, mutualism, and the effects of these interactions on populations, speciation, and community structure, Thompson seeks to explain not only how interactions differ in the selection pressures they exert on species, but also when interactions are most likely to lead to coevolution. In this era of climate change and swiftly transforming environments, the ideas Thompson puts forward in Interaction and Coevolution are more relevant than ever before.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

190

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

022612732X

ISBN 13

9780226127323

Relentless Evolution

By: John N. Thompson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Relentless Evolution

By: John N. Thompson

At a glance, most species seem adapted to the environment in which they live. Yet species relentlessly evolve, and populations within species evolve in different ways. Evolution, as it turns out, is much more dynamic than biologists realized just a few decades ago. In Relentless Evolution, John N. Thompson explores why adaptive evolution never ceases and why natural selection acts on species in so many different ways. Thompson presents a view of life in which ongoing evolution is essential and inevitable. Each chapter focuses on one of the major problems in adaptive evolution: How fast is evolution? How strong is natural selection? How do species co-opt the genomes of other species as they adapt? Why does adaptive evolution sometimes lead to more, rather than less, genetic variation within populations? How does the process of adaptation drive the evolution of new species? How does coevolution among species continually reshape the web of life? And, more generally, how are our views of adaptive evolution changing? Relentless Evolution draws on studies of all the major forms of life—from microbes that evolve in microcosms within a few weeks to plants and animals that sometimes evolve in detectable ways within a few decades. It shows evolution not as a slow and stately process, but rather as a continual and sometimes frenetic process that favors yet more evolutionary change.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

510

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

022601875X

ISBN 13

9780226018751

The Coevolutionary Process

By: John N. Thompson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Coevolutionary Process

By: John N. Thompson

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

388

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0226797678

ISBN 13

9780226797670

The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution

By: John N. Thompson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution

By: John N. Thompson

Coevolution—reciprocal evolutionary change in interacting species driven by natural selection—is one of the most important ecological and genetic processes organizing the earth's biodiversity: most plants and animals require coevolved interactions with other species to survive and reproduce. The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution analyzes how the biology of species provides the raw material for long-term coevolution, evaluates how local coadaptation forms the basic module of coevolutionary change, and explores how the coevolutionary process reshapes locally coevolving interactions across the earth's constantly changing landscapes. Picking up where his influential The Coevolutionary Process left off, John N. Thompsonsynthesizes the state of a rapidly developing science that integrates approaches from evolutionary ecology, population genetics, phylogeography, systematics, evolutionary biochemistry and physiology, and molecular biology. Using models, data, and hypotheses to develop a complete conceptual framework, Thompson also draws on examples from a wide range of taxa and environments, illustrating the expanding breadth and depth of research in coevolutionary biology.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

457

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

022611869X

ISBN 13

9780226118697

Interaction and Coevolution

By: John N. Thompson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Interaction and Coevolution

By: John N. Thompson

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

190

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

022612732X

ISBN 13

9780226127323

Faith and Knowledge

A Modern Introduction To the Problem of Religious Knowledge, Second Edition

By: John Hick

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Faith and Knowledge

A Modern Introduction To the Problem of Religious Knowledge, Second Edition

By: John Hick

In this revision of his widely read study, John Hick has taken advantage of constructive comments on the first edition to make the book more useful. New material has been added and the overall structure of the volume has been changed to strengthen it both as an introduction to the problem of religious knowledge and as an exposition of the view of faith that seems to him most adequate. There is a new chapter on the Thomist-Catholic view of faith; a new treatment of the controversial notion of eschatological verification, taking account of various published critiques of the concept; and a new section on the way in which the Christian faith-awareness of God expresses itself in a distinctive way of life.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

281

Publisher

Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1606086960

ISBN 13

9781606086964

The Political Economy of Corporation Tax

Theory, Values and Law Reform

By: John Snape

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Political Economy of Corporation Tax

Theory, Values and Law Reform

By: John Snape

Excellent technical writing on corporation tax abounds, but it tends to be inaccessible to public lawyers, political theorists and political economists. Although recent years have seen not only an explosion in public law scholarship but also a reawakening of interest in interpretative political theory and political economy, the potential of these perspectives to illuminate the corporation tax debate has remained unexplored. In this important work, John Snape seeks to reconcile these disparate strands of scholarship and to contribute to a new way of understanding and conceptualising the reform of the law relating to corporate taxation. Drawing on important developments in public law scholarship, the study combines elements of political theory and political economy. It advances a new interpretation of corporation tax law as an instrument of rule, through the maximisation of a nation's economic potential. Snape shows how corporate taxation belongs at the centre of any discussion of economic globalisation, not only because of the potential of national tax systems to influence inward investment decisions but also because of the potential of those decisions to shape the public interest that those tax systems might embody. Following public law and politics models, the book looks afresh at the impact of Britain's political institutions, of the processes of its representative government and of the theory that moulds and orders the values that the corporation tax code contains. This is a timely exploration of cutting-edge issues of public policy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

206

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1847318711

ISBN 13

9781847318718

Relentless Evolution

By: John N. Thompson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Relentless Evolution

By: John N. Thompson

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

510

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

022601889X

ISBN 13

9780226018898

History

By: John Higham,Leonard Krieger,Felix Gilbert

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

History

By: John Higham,Leonard Krieger,Felix Gilbert

This book, originally published in 1977, is a survey of European historiography from its origins in the historians of Greece and Rome, through the annalists and chroniclers of the middle ages, to the historians of the late eighteenth century. The author concentrates on those writers whose works fit into a specific category of writing, or who have inlfuence the course of later historical writing, though he does deal with some of the more specialist forms of medieval historiography such as the crusading writers, and chivalrous historians like Froissart. He maintains that ‘modern’ history did not develop until the 18th Century.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

350

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317247108

ISBN 13

9781317247104

Tamoxifen

Beyond the Antiestrogen

By: John A. Kellen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Tamoxifen

Beyond the Antiestrogen

By: John A. Kellen

Tamoxifen has persisted as a widely accepted and administered drug for almost 25 years. Following the many scientific papers and books on the subject, it has remained a very intriguing substance. This, perhaps, is the reason for another monograph on Tamoxifen. It is regrettably true that overviews, even when up to date after exhaustive research - the shibboleth of our cultures -, rapidly lose relevance with the passage of time. Scientists can sometimes be pictured as deep sea divers, who plunge into the unknown in search of a hitherto unknown world. Their descent is exciting, but eventually they must come up for air and integrate their experiences with others who also had to resurface. This book intends to collect and, where possible, to collate recent, but sometimes seemingly unrelated information. To quote Stephane Mallarme: "Everything in the world exists to end up in a book". Even if this is a tad cynical, it might not be far from the truth. If a little knowledge is a dangerous commodity, one can also add - tongue in cheek - that a vast amount of knowledge can be truly hazardous. It is likely that what might seem as entangled data is confusing, especially for those satisfied with the comfortable interpretation of Tamoxifen as an antiestrogen which has long been found insufficient. The complexity of its mechanisms and effects defies simple explanations and may even seem capricious, but only because of our ignorance.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

383

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

1461240921

ISBN 13

9781461240921

A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan

By: John U. Wolff

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan

By: John U. Wolff

The Cebuano language, also referred by most of its speakers as Bisaya or Binisaya (English: Visayan), is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines by about 20 million people, mostly in Central Visayas, eastern Negros Island Region, western parts of Eastern Visayas and major parts of Mindanao, most of whom belong to the Visayan ethnic group. It is the most widely spoken of the languages within the so-named Visayan language family and is closely related to other Filipino languages.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

2419

Publisher

anboco

Published Date

ISBN 10

3736405472

ISBN 13

9783736405479

Book's by John N. Thompson

The Coevolutionary Process

The Coevolutionary Process

Interaction and Coevolution

Interaction and Coevolution

Relentless Evolution

Relentless Evolution

The Coevolutionary Process

The Coevolutionary Process

The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution

The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution

Interaction and Coevolution

Interaction and Coevolution

Faith and Knowledge

Faith and Knowledge

The Political Economy of Corporation Tax

The Political Economy of Corporation Tax

Relentless Evolution

Relentless Evolution

History

History

Tamoxifen

Tamoxifen

A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan

A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email